The Fox network on Monday announced a fall schedule that places the new Batman origin drama, "Gotham" in the Monday lead-off spot and reduces the animation overload on Sundays.

"Gotham," a Batman prequel featuring Ben McKenzie as Commissioner Gordon, figures to be one of the most anticipated series of the new fall season. It will air at 8 p.m., right in front of the fantasy hit, "Sleepy Hollow." Fox has ordered 16 episodes of "Gotham" and 18 of "Sleepy Hollow."

On Sundays, where animation has ruled for years, Fox is installing two live-action comedies. One is "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," the Andy Samberg police sitcom returning for its sophomore season. The other is "Mulaney," a show starring former "Saturday Night Live" writer John Mulaney as a stand-up comedian and Martin Short as his boss.

In other Fox developments, "Bones" is moving to Thursday nights, where it will be followed by "Gracepoint" (the American remake of "Broadchurch," a murder mystery starring David Tennant), and "Glee" is being held back until midseason.

Also scheduled for midseason are "The Following," "Backstrom," a comedy featuring Rainn Wilson ("The Office"), and "The Last Man on Earth," a sitcom fronted by Will Forte.

Other new shows for the fall include the reality series "Utopia," which sends 15 strangers to "an isolated underdeveloped location" for a year, and "Red Band Society," a medical drama starring Octavia Spencer as a nurse.

To make room for the new inventory, Fox has canceled "Almost Human," "Dads," "Enlisted," "Raising Hope," "Rake," "Surviving Jack" and "The X Factor."